near: Compare two numeric vectors

Description Usage Arguments Examples

Description

This is a safe way of comparing if two vectors of floating point numbers are (pairwise) equal. This is safer than using ==, because it has a built in tolerance

Usage

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near(x, y, tol = .Machine$double.eps^0.5)

Arguments

x, y

Numeric vectors to compare

tol

Tolerance of comparison.

Examples

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sqrt(2) ^ 2 == 2
near(sqrt(2) ^ 2, 2)

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